Phew!

Posted by Melvin Bray on July 27th, 2013 filed in Useful Perhaps

“I don’t try to think back to when I was one. I just try to live the life I have now.”

~Melvin IV, at 6-years-old

My son went to bed sad last night that he had run out of time to finish his pizza. We had a really late dinner and by 9:30 it was time to call it. He was really worried that I or his mother would eat this slice of cheesy deliciousness he had coveted with patience, “saving the best for last”–his words, not mine. Unfortunately, he just ran out of time.

I wouldn’t promise him anything, so my son woke up with pizza on the brain. Experiencing him trying to find a polite but decisive way to ask me about the food that remained was comical. I told him he reminded me of when I was six (man, I loved to eat). Melvin then remarked how hard it is to imagine me (and really, really old people) as a child. He then hit me with that statement about being fully present at six.

And I was glad that this morning when he came out his room and wanted to talk, I had completely stopped what I was doing on the computer to look, touch and listen to him.

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